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J. H. SHARP.

CORN SHELLER. Patented Apr. 28, 1868.

JOHN SHARE-0F WORTSVILLE, EW-JERSEY;

Letters atent Nb. 77;410, dated 28 1868.

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Beit known that I, J 01m H. Stung-of Wort'sville, in the county of :Hunterdon, end Stateof New Jersey, heverinvented a new and improved Qorn'sheller' and that. the, following description, taken in connection with the acoompauyingdrawings, hereinefter referred to, forms efnll and. exact specification ofjthe same, wh'erein I heve set forth the nature nnd'iprin'ciples of my said improvements by which ,my 'in'ventioh may be distinguished fromall others of elisimilar 'olossljtogethe'rfwith such parts as I cl aim, anddesire to have secnred to in'e'by Letters' Pat'ent. Q

This invention releteslwa new end improved corn-shel'ler, of that class which are designed for operation on a large seale;=and it consists of a revolving.spirellytoothed cylinder, in connection with a concave'composedof a series of yielding here,- all errnngedto operate-as herein efter'fnHy shown and described. In the accompcnying sheet of, drawingsl Figure Iis a vertical longitudinal section of my invention; teke'n'in the line at 2, fig. 2.

Figure 2, 'a transverse section of the same, taken in the line y g/l fig. 1.-

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-A represents a frame, which maybe constructed in nnyproper; nra'nner to insure strength and durability,

and B is a. cylinder, placed. in the np penpnrt of sn idfrdlne, end provided with aspiral row of .steel or hairdmetol teeth, a 1his-cylinderjhas'its ails slightly inclined. fromhorhontol plane; and it may lie-constructed of wood, covered .with sheet-rhetal; in order to avoid'ehraeion andweer.

Between the two upper side-pieces bfi of, the frame Al'thereis'pleced, side' by'side, a series'ot' .harsyc, which work on a. rod, c,"pa,ss lng tl'finsversely throughjthe side-pieces blb and the rear ends of the ham-the latter having ee eh'ai spring, d, hearing on' them,- the springs having a-tendency to keep the outer ends of .the barsdoivn upon 5.- rod,-e', which passes transversely through the side-pieces, (see ilgwl.)

I The bars G1are'made concave at their nndereides, to conform to the 'e'nrvatnre'of the cylinder=B,fa's shown clearly in fig. 2, and these hers, it will be: nnderstood, form a concave for the 'c'ylinderfare directly oir'erit, and nearly parallel with'its' axis, the inner ends being slightly niore elevated obove the cylinder. than thelower or outer ends, as will be fully understood by referring tdfigi 1.

D.is a hopper, placed on the frnine A, at the inner ends of the bars 0, and into this hop'per the-corn to.be shelled isplaced. .The cylinder ll is rotated by:any'con v.enient power, and the extra of corn pass"down between the top of the, cylinder Bend the bars 0, the teeth a of the, cylinder rotating the ears, stripping the grains or kernels-of'corn therefrom, and at the sometime feeding them alohg to'the outer ends of the bars C, between 'which and the lower end pflth' cylinder the cohseredischarged, the corn being all' shelled from the cobs by the time the latter-reach the lower or outer ends-ofthe bars.

The earn, as it is shell'edfrom' the cobs, posses oirt underneath-theside-pieces b b andthe top of cylinder B', but there is not. suflicient space for the cobsf to pass ont at these places, and .theyare consequently discharged at the point specified. I

.Byhnvipg tho-'concavecomposed of a. series of bars, 0, with springs'd bearing upon than, the concave is made to conform to the varying site of th'e'ears of horn and'snch a degree of flenibility allowed it thet all the ears ofcorn, large, smell, and'medi'um size, wi1l have all ,thegrains or kernels shelled from-them.

I Having thus describedmy invention, I claim as new, anidesire'to secure by Letters Patent. The employment of a, series ofiyieldiug lisrs'C. C, suspended over the inclined rollerB lay-means of springs old and rod e, when all are'alrranged as and forithe pur'pose described.

' JOHN H. SHARP. Witnesses:

J. S. MANNERB, WM. T. Huron. 

